Scurrying around wikipedia and so on its hard to find how many people crewed an airship. The R101 which crashed in 1930 had 45 crew. The Hindenburg which infamously crashed at Lakehurst in 1937 had 97 people on board but that included passengers. The USS Akron had 76 passengers and crew aboard when it crashed in 1933, so it seems around 45 to 60 people crewed a civilian airship. Add wartime machine gun crews and bombardiers and you could have 60 to 80 crew.

Given that not all would bail out in time in a (fire?) crash you could be looking at half that number parachuting down I suppose. So... 30 to 40 men.

Scurrying around wikipedia and so on its hard to find how many people crewed an airship. The R101 which crashed in 1930 had 45 crew. The Hindenburg which infamously crashed at Lakehurst in 1937 had 97 people on board but that included passengers. The USS Akron had 76 passengers and crew aboard when it crashed in 1933, so it seems around 45 to 60 people crewed a civilian airship. Add wartime machine gun crews and bombardiers and you could have 60 to 80 crew.

Given that not all would bail out in time in a (fire?) crash you could be looking at half that number parachuting down I suppose. So... 30 to 40 men.

Thanks for the info, I'll work on an opening post based on your numbers. I hope/assume Linna won't object, though I only really needed a ball-park figure to have an idea of how many men might overrun the club.

Haha, I don't think the parachuted-down crew of a crashed Zepp would be up to overrunning anything. Each man would land where he did and look after surviving himself. They'd have no rifles for a start You're talking about parachutists trained to attack an objective upon landing which is something different. I think you need the GM's OK to proceed with such an idea.

@ Travaius: Try not sleeping, then the flow of comments is much slower

Thanks for the info, I'll work on an opening post based on your numbers. I hope/assume Linna won't object, though I only really needed a ball-park figure to have an idea of how many men might overrun the club.

30 to 40 people mostly trying to get to the ground without going squish. Most of your excitement will come from the large flaming airship coming in to crash right on top of your club

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Hey the German could be Good Guys from their perspective, after all it is kinda of subjective. Also WW 1 was just all kinds of weird with no one real good guy. Though this is me just going on about nothing.

Eh you're right though. Germany didn't even really want to go to war. They thought by backing Austria-Hungary that Russia would just not enter at all. And when Britain declared on them it was actually a shock. They considered them cousins and figured they would stay neutral if they didn't help the German themselves.

In my next post, I'm planning on having Clémence successfully escape the club. I would like to know the general outline of the invasion so I have a better idea of where to take her next. What area will be overrun first? Where will the largest concentration of Germans converge upon?